List of American actors of Irish descent

This is a list of notable Irish American actors.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is Irish American and a notable actor.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

The list is organized in reverse chronological order of birth decades.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

1990s – 1980s – 1970s – 1960s – 1950s – 1940s – 1930s – 1920s – 1910s – 1900s – 1890s – 1880s – 1870s

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1980s

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  194. ↑ "Clooney was born into a troubled family of Irish Catholics in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1928..."
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  227. ↑ "Irish based film director John Huston" "My father was born in 1884 in Toronto, Canada, of a Scottish mother... and an Irish father... In 1964 I became an Irish citizen."
  228. ↑ "Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky dubbed them the "Irish Mafia", but they preferred to call their group the "Boy's Club". The original members of the club were Frank McHugh, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Spencer Tracy, all of whom were Irish-Americans hence the name Irish Mafia." "His father John Tracy was Irish; his mother Caroline Brown Tracy could trace her ancestors back to American Colonial days."
  229. ↑ "Gracie was a practicing Irish Catholic... Gracie grew up in a big, loving Irish family. They were so Irish that her sister spoke Gaelic—and they don't speak Gaelic in Ireland."
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  232. ↑ "The voters chose as the 94th selection an Irish-American actor who personified the Church in film – William Joseph Patrick O'Brien better known to film buffs as Pat O'Brien, the rugged actor who starred in films from the thirties to the early eighties." "Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky dubbed them the "Irish Mafia", but they preferred to call their group the "Boy's Club". The original members of the club were Frank McHugh, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Spencer Tracy, all of whom were Irish-Americans hence the name Irish Mafia."
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